YOUR AGE BY EATING OUT Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway-but your waiter may know! YOUR AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH This is pretty neat DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST! It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read . Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!   This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun. 1. First of all, pick th e number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat.   (more than once but less than 10) 2. Multiply this number by 2(just to be bold) 3. Add 5 4. Multiply it by 50 5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1758... If you ha ven't, add 1757. 6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. You should have a three digit number The first digit of this was your original number. (I.e., How many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.) The next two numbers are YOUR AGE ! ------ (Oh YES, it i s !)

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 May 2008 Topic 2 of 2

MOM

Write a letter to your Mother.  It doesn't matter if she is in heaven or on earth.  Tell her what she means to you...

Dear Mom,

I just wanted to thank you for the many defining moments in my life that has made me who I am today

The good:

Homemade cakes, cookies and candies

Special occasion trips to A & W  and the frosty mugs of root beer

Oven cooked warm breakfast ,lunch and dinners

Camping trips and fishing

Fresh veggies in the garden

Especially doing all you knew how to make sure that I fit in, hand sewing clothes, making my cheerleader outfits and dresses for school dances. you made sure I had what I needed and wanted (Christmas, Birthdays, Easter). you did such a great job that I didn't even know we were dirt poor until my first year of high school when the mean kids started making comments, even then I was not convinced. we may not have had much money but we were rich with love and affection.

The bad:

You taught me more than you will ever understand when I was17. After dad died and you had your breakdown and disappeared for 6 years, sis and I had nobody but each other.

we learned to look after one another, we rented an apartment, furnished it ,cooked, paid bills, worked two jobs each while in school, graduated from high school, taught each other how to drive, got our licence and first car and then college for sis...home for the summers with me until she graduated top of her class.

you taught us to stand on our own two feet, that life is tough but we are tougher. we cried a lot, we laughed a lot and we learned to survive together. I guess this is why we are best friends as adults.

I don't hold a grudge,I have no resentment, nor do i judge you....

you have been back for a long time now and that is what matters

The ugly:

Aqua net and the bouffant hair on picture days..... yep...thanks mom...enough said

The yellow Dorothy dress....my classmates danced behind me down the yellow brick road all freaking day.....

The monday thur Sunday panties.....ughhhhh

The blind dates with your friends son's.... one was a serial killer in the making, one sang love songs out side my bedroom window for days,one smelled like he bathed in tuna fish and one didnt speak the entire date, not one word....the list goes on... yikes

Family Reunions in the cemetery........if I heard it once, I heard it a thousand times...(get off your aunt...stop stepping on your uncle) .It was a cemetery mom...where in the helloooo were we suppose to play????)

Last but not least...thanks for the recent laughs

I know you are ONLY 75 BUT...the thong panties with the phrase "single" are a joke ,hahahaha , a gag gift, the granny panties are not. please for the love of god...get it straight or I will have to come and get them.

you do not need a tunnel light strapped to your forehead to get from the bedroom to the bathroom in the middle of the night....It is just a couple of steps away.

About your constipated cat....For the last time...I suggested Karo syrup NOT KY Jelly .... ok so he was sick and well lubricated for a while...he lived right?....let it go....(just curious, how do you know when a cat is constipated anyhow)

About that hearing aid...use it for more than eaves dropping on your neighbors k

Stop cussing the cable guy...he is starting to complain...it's the weather mom...it's nothing personal

I Love you.

your daughter

~R

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I have been MIA but the yard was calling.......

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A few pics from Aubreys shower.......she arrived a few days later...I don't have a recent photo uploaded yet....So I will repost one photo

 Me, Tori and Aubrey

A few days later ,,,here she is

Aubreys cake

Party Favors

Flowers

The sisters

Tori w/ Aubrey, Elise (Haydens mom) jessica with Elizabeth (June 7th due date)

DeDe with Hayden

More later.................